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Almost 4,000 students, more than 10,000 employees, thousands of patients every day. Hannover Medical School is a small city within a city. How does the interaction on campus work? Our podcast series Inside MHH takes you to the place where medicine is at home.
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In this moving episode of inside MHH, we talk to Halina Huppertz, head midwife at MHH, about her day-to-day work, emotional births and the challenges of modern obstetrics. For over 30 years, Halina has been accompanying women during what is probably one of the most intimate and important moments of their lives - the birth of their child.
- Why do women choose to give birth at a level 1 center like the MHH?
- How is trust established between the midwife and the woman giving birth?
- What role does evidence-based medicine play in obstetrics?
- And why is the midwifery profession much more than just a job?
Find out how teamwork, empathy, scientific training and a genuine vocation interact at the MHH - and why natural birth is the focus despite high-tech and maximum care. Listen in now and find out more about obstetrics, study programs and the miracle of birth in one of Germany's largest perinatal centers.
►More information: https: //www.mhh.de/praenatalmedizin-und-geburtshilfe-im-perinatalzentrum
The episode will be available here from May 12, 2025:
They take off in under two minutes and fly where others can't - the crew of the civil defense helicopter Christoph 4 from Hanover. What actually happens when a rescue helicopter is called out? How does a mission work? And what does all this do to the people who fly with it day after day? In this episode, Marc, emergency paramedic and HEMS TC at Johanniter Unfallhilfe, and Bastian, emergency physician and surgeon at the MHH, take us on a journey through their extraordinary everyday life on board. Whether it's a serious traffic accident, a child rescue or simply the moment when the rotor blades start up: they talk about how they work as a team and which missions have stayed with them to this day.
The episode will be available here from May 09, 2025:
Nursing is not only their profession, but also a family matter: Emira, Nadine and Rifki Sassi all work at the MHH - but in very different areas. In this episode of inside MHH, they talk about how their day-to-day work is intertwined with their family life, the challenges they overcome and the moving moments that motivate them time and again.
You can find out what father Rifki can learn from his daughter Emira and what experiences Emira shares with her mother Nadine. They also discuss the changes in Nursing and what it will take to convince more people to take up the profession.
The episode will be available here from March 27, 2025:
His Department is certainly not the first to be mentioned when listing the areas of a university hospital like the MHH: Jörg Viering heads our Central Research Workshops. The name says it all - research meets workshop. No scalpel is used here, but drills, milling machines and saws. Jörg Viering and his staff ensure that the MHH scientists are provided with an important prerequisite for their work - their very special laboratory equipment. These cannot always simply be ordered from a manufacturer. Complex research projects, such as the cultivation of heart muscle cells, require equally complex equipment. Viering, an engineer and industrial mechanic, explains how his team develops, programs and produces these components together with the researchers. He can't imagine a more exciting task that also makes so much sense because it ultimately benefits patients.
By the way: MHH trains Industrial mechanic specialising in precision engineering - a varied and future-proof apprenticeship. Applications are open until August 1 ► https://www.mhh.de/zfw/geraetebau/ausbildung
The episode will be available here from February 13, 2025:
Lara Engelke wants to become a country physician. In view of the shortage of physicians, particularly in rural areas, this is already a remarkable decision by a young person. During her nursing training, Lara Engelke witnessed the important work of rural physicians and the critical shortages. She is particularly interested in palliative care, partly because of her personal experiences. However, she does not have a high school diploma. The opportunity to study medicine via the rural physician quota was made for Lara Engelke. She seized it and is now studying medicine at the MHH without her A-levels. In this episode, she talks about her path to university, the advantages and disadvantages of the rural physician quota and her personal view of the future work of a rural physician.
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The episode will be available here from January 16, 2025:
Organ transplantation is always a medical challenge - but it is particularly complex in the case of children. In this episode, we take a look behind the scenes of highly specialized lung transplantation in the smallest patients with two MHH experts. Dr. Julia Carlens, specialist in paediatric pneumology, and Prof. Dr. Fabio Ius, Head of Lung Transplantation at the MHH Clinical Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, shed light on the entire process, which does not just take place at the operating table.
The MHH is Germany's only center for lung transplants in children up to the age of twelve. Why do even babies sometimes need a new lung? Which departments work hand in hand and how are affected families supported? You can find out the answers to these and other questions in the first part of the episode.
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The episode will be available here from December 12, 2024:
In the second part of the episode, we delve a little deeper into the topic of transplantation in young children. Dr. Julia Carlens and Prof. Dr. Fabio Ius talk about the special resilience of young patients. What does their life look like after a lung transplant and what important role does the MHH play in this? It also gets personal: what emotional bond often develops between physicians and patients over the years? What gives physicians strength, and how do they deal with constant availability - a reality that particularly affects Prof. Ius as a surgeon?
Do you have any questions or requests on other medical topics? Send us a DM on Instagram (@medizinischehochschule) or an email to webredaktion@mh-hannover.de.
The episode will be available here from December 19, 2024:
Some people find the idea of being operated on by robots scary. Others find the progress fascinating. This episode is specifically about the use of robotic technology in microsurgery, i.e. operations on tiny blood vessels and nerves. The MHH is a leader in this field, including in the Clinical Department of Plastic, Aesthetic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery (PÄHW), where Dr. med. Khaled Dastagir is Deputy Director and Senior Consultant. We talk to him about the necessity of robot-assisted surgery, future technical possibilities and why playing computer games in your free time can be good training for an operation with a robot.
►More information about microsurgery and the range of treatments at the PÄHW Clinical Department: https: //www.mhh.de/klinik-fuer-plastische-aesthetische-hand-und-wiederherstellungschirurgie
The episode will be available here from November 14, 2024:
The treatment of children and adolescents with cancer involves potentially lethal drugs and complicated diagnostic and therapeutic methods such as lumbar and bone marrow punctures - if the medical team does not work well together, a lot can go wrong. To avoid this, we have developed the SICKO (Safety in Pediatric Oncology) training concept for nurses and physicians at the MHH Children's Hospital. In this episode, Urs Mücke (SICKO project manager, tutor) and Anna-Lena Herbach (SICKO project coordinator, tutor) explain exactly how SICKO works, who can take part and what the training does not only for patient safety, but also for team spirit. In September, the two received the Lohfert Prize, endowed with 20,000 euros, for their project at the Healthcare Industry Congress in Hamburg.
►More information about SICKO: https://www.mhh.de/ccc/onkoakademie/sicko
The episode will be available here from October 17, 2024:
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Season 3
In an emergency room, you never know what's coming next. Our reporter Rolf Rosenstock wants to know how people work here and accompanies emergency physician and internist Pia Plank on one of her night shifts in the Central Emergency Room (ZNA) at the MHH. How do nursing staff and physicians deal with the special situation here? Limited resources in terms of specialist medical staff, beds and equipment are coming up against more and more patients who are seeking help but are often not emergencies. No one is turned away, but the workload is increasing.
►You can also find out more about the work in the MHH emergency department on the MHH Instagram channel: @medicaluniversity as well as the MHH homepage www.mhh.de/notaufnahme
►If you are looking for medical help, you can find an overview of the various contact points here: www.hannover.de/wer-hilft-wann
The episode will be available here from June 20, 2024:
Lea works for us as an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) - a relatively unknown academic nursing training program. Her job combines the tasks of physicians and nurses. Lea works on the neurosurgery ward, where she aims to improve patient care. Our reporter Rolf Rosenstock finds out how she does this during a visit to ward 26.
►More about the APN trainee program at MHH: https: //www.mhh.de/pflege/pflegewissenschaft/apn-trainee-programm
The episode will be available here from July 4, 2024:
Medical technologists in radiology, or MTRs for short, are hardly known as a profession. They don't appear in hospital TV series, as their job is usually done by physicians - which doesn't correspond to reality. Without MTRs, nothing would work at the MHH; they work at an important interface between physicians and patients. In this guest episode, colleagues from our MTR school explain what they actually do.
►More information on training and jobs: www.mhh.de/mtr
The episode will be available here from July 18, 2024:
Preventive help - that's what the new MHH project #180grad aims to do. Young people who have sexual fantasies and are afraid of being assaulted will find contact persons in the outpatient clinic who want to help without judging. In an interview with our reporter Rolf Rosenstock, project therapists Jennifer Bingemer and Laura Budnik explain what help with this sensitive topic can look like in concrete terms.
The episode will be available here from August 01, 2024:
Season 2
The MHH administers around 30,000 anesthetics per year. How exactly does this work and why are many people afraid of such anesthesia? Our reporter Rolf Rosenstock investigates these questions and accompanies Dr. Thomas Palmaers, Senior Physician at the MHH Clinical Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, during an eye operation.
The episode will be available here from November 9, 2023:
More than a thousand patients, staff and students - how do you cook for so many and such different people? Why are there no chips on the ward? And what do the kitchen staff actually like to eat themselves? Our reporter Rolf Rosenstock meets dietician Renate Woike and head of department Stefan Birnfeld and takes a look deep into the cooking pots of the MHH central kitchen.
The episode will be available here from November 23, 2023:
In children, anesthesia is much more complicated than in adults. In this podcast episode, our reporter Rolf Rosenstock asks Dr. Christiane Beck to explain why this is the case. She is a senior physician at the MHH Clinical Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. Our reporter is allowed to be present during the preparations for a heart operation on a patient who is only a few months old.
The episode will be available here from December 7, 2023:
Season 1
Our reporter Rolf Rosenstock accompanies Johannes Stichternath from our Supply Engineering team into the underground of the MHH, where visitors are normally not allowed to enter.
The episode will be available here from May 4, 2023:
This time, our reporter Rolf Rosenstock visits our maternity clinic and accompanies midwife Liana Lorenzo Kühn on her shift.
The episode will be available here from May 18, 2023:
Our ultra-modern hospital uses a seemingly antiquated means of transportation. But reporter Rolf Rosenstock finds out from Andreas Novak from our electrical engineering team why the good old pneumatic tube is far from obsolete.
The episode will be available here from June 1, 2023: